Sunday, June 9, 2024

Ark of the Covenant

There are people today who believe they will find the ark of the covenant somewhere on this earth. Members of the Temple Mount claim to know where it is.   If these people were to read Scriptures and believe in God they would learn the Ark of the Covenant was seen in God's Temple in the heavenlies.  Therefore, it is not on this earth.

Hebrews 9:1-4 describes the physical House of God - 
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

Revelation 11:19 refers to the spiritual House of God - 
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

When was the last time it was written of?

1 Chronicles 15:28
.... all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.

King David prepared a place for the ark in Jerusalem as the House of God had not been built yet. When Solomon became king, he had his palace and the temple built. When it was finished:

1 Kings 8
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of God to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim. For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles. 9-There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where Yahweh had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
The jar of manna and Aaron's staff were no longer present inside the ark. This temple was destroyed during the Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of the Babylonian Empire in 587 BC. What I have learned so far is that no remains of the destroyed temple have ever been found.

2 Kings 24:10 -
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege. And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it. Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon.
So, in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive. As Yahweh had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of God and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple .... He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.

Somewhere from the time there is no longer any mention of the ark in Scriptures to this verse in Revelation Yahweh must have removed the ark of the covenant from this earth. A lot of gold treasures are mentioned as being taken to Babylon (Iraq) but there is no specific mention of the ark. No matter who took it or tried to hide it, the Ark of Covenant was seen in His heavenly temple.

Friday, May 31, 2024

Cashless

 I read this article, May 4, 2024, and I quote:
What Is the 50-in-5 Campaign? 
According to the 50-in-5 website, “50-in-5 is a country-led advocacy campaign. By 2028, the 50-in-5 campaign will have helped 50 countries design, launch, and scale components of their digital public infrastructure.”

The digital public infrastructure essentially combines all the different means of digital personal collection into ONE central infrastructure.

From the website: “Digital public infrastructure (DPI) – which refers to a secure and interoperable network of components that include digital payments, ID, and data exchange systems – is essential for participation in markets and society in a digital era.”

Alex Newman explains, 
The U.N. and Bill Gates are building ‘a giant digital gulag for humanity’ to assert digital control from the top down....

The 50-in-5 campaign aims to have 50 countries—or governments—impose some major elements of this digital public infrastructure on their population within five years, by the end of 2028.
It is going to be packaged as something that is for our benefit.
They’re going to draw us in with the benefits. 
They already are

According to the United Nations Development Programme:

All countries, regardless of income level, geography, or where they are in their digital transformation journey, can benefit from being a part of 50-in-5. Joining the campaign helps ensure countries don’t have to tackle DPI implementation alone or start from scratch. By implementing DPI components, participating countries can stimulate innovation and local entrepreneurship, enhance access to services and opportunities for all people, and pave the way for more interoperable technologies and collaborative global communities.

Then, they are going to say it is something needed, and without it, you will suffer.

It is not for our benefit. It is for THEIR benefit.

The Facets of Digital Public Infrastructure
A microchip implanted in your hand can tell the government everything it needs to know about you, from your personal identification information to how much money you have in the bank or on your charge card. 
Digital IDs:
Each individual is given a digital ID by providing biometric identification, such as fingerprints or facial scans on your phone.  Using this biometric identification, the government will issue and manage your digital ID.  You will be told that this will make it more convenient and easier to bank, travel, get healthcare, and more. You will also be told to keep a digital ID on your smartphone—with all your data including your SSN, insurance numbers, and bank accounts—and get rid of anything physical.
Currently, fourteen states in the United States already have some form of digital ID.

Central Bank Digital Currency
A CBDC is a digital form of currency that centralizes all of a country’s citizens' financial information in a digital database controlled by the government. 
According to Reuters, “A total of 130 countries representing 98% of the global economy are now exploring digital versions of their currencies,....”  A CBDC takes the control of money from banking institutions into the government's own hands. 

Digital Health Certificates
The World Health Organization (WHO) has created the Global Digital Health Certification Network as “the first building block of digital public health infrastructure.”

Universal Blockchain Ledger
Another facet of the Digital Public Infrastructure is the Bank for International Settlements's ability to implement tokenization with a universal blockchain ledger.
The Bank for International Settlements is an international financial institution fostering monetary and financial cooperation.  The Bank of International Settlements is already working on this universal blockchain ledger and attempting to tokenize every asset in the universe. Every farm, every car, every house, everything.  The goal is for citizens to be able to interact with the blockchain ledger using their biometric digital ID and Central Bank Digital Currencies.
In clearer terms, if you want to buy something, you connect to this blockchain system and transfer CBDCs.

The Foundation Is Already Laid
The foundation for digital public infrastructure is already being laid.
It won’t be too far in the future where your digital device will tell the government everything about you.
It may not just be a digital device with your biometric data.  Some countries, such as Sweden and Germany, already have tons of citizens implementing microchips into their hands.
In fact, this started before the pandemic. However, when Sweden announced that the coronavirus vaccine passport requirement would be implemented, “the number of people who got microchips inserted under their skin rose.” The microchips had already allowed Swedes to access their apartment buildings without a key fob, get into their local gym without a membership card, ride public transport, and more.

Don’t get it wrong. This is 100% about control.

Newman explains, “The architecture being laid down is where a situation could emerge where people could be prevented from buying or selling [or entering other countries] if they won’t participate.”  (end quote)

See how this ties in with prophecy:
Revelation 13:13 (The end times False Prophet has been bringing about great signs, even to make it appear that fire comes down from heaven) - And he seduced them that dwell on the earth to erect an image to the beast who had the wound from a sword and recovered from it. And it was given to him to put life into the image of the beast and to cause that all who would not worship the image of the beast should be slain; and to (instruct that) all people should receive a mark on their right hands or upon their foreheads so that no one might be able to buy or to sell, except those who had the mark of the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom: let him that has intelligence compute the number of the beast of prey for it is the number of a man and its number is six hundred and sixty and six.
It ain't the end yet, but 
things are coming together
and will eventually fit this timeline.

Friday, May 10, 2024

Jacob's Trouble

 Jeremiah 30

Yahweh is speaking to Jeremiah about the days to come when He will restore the fortunes of His people and Judah.  He will bring them back to the land of their inheritance.  This happens when His Son returns and sets up his kingdom on earth in the promised land - the land of Canaan.  This has nothing to do with the tiny nation-state of modern-day Israel and this did not happen in 1948.

We have learned from previous studies that the House of Israel (Jacob's descendants) is made up of all true believers.  

"That day will be awesome, there is none like it!   It is a time of trouble for Jacob, but he shall be delivered from it."  

Yahshua His Son is the king God will raise up for them.  This is what is meant by God telling us the end from the beginning.  This is also why we read Scriptures from the beginning - Genesis - through to the end - Revelation - and let His Spirit reveal the truth.

Verse 11: I will make an end of all the nations among which I have dispersed you; but I will not make an end of you! I will not leave you unpunished but will chastise you in measure.

This verse brings to mind Seals 1 through 4 as opened and Seal 5 in the process of opening when true believers are persecuted.

Verse 14: All your lovers have forsaken you, they do not seek you out, for I have struck you as an enemy strikes .... because your iniquity was so great and your sins so many.  I did these things to you because your iniquity was so great and your sins so many.

In this study I can see this foretold event the same as what Yahshua foretold in Matthew 24 which is called the Beginning of Sorrows.  From my studies I say we are more than halfway through the Beginning of Sorrows aka the time of Jacob's Trouble.  And this ties in with the Seals we read of in Revelation.  I see this as Three Witnesses to the same timeline.

Verse 22: "You shall be My people and I will be your God."

Continue reading into chapter 31 and in Verse 8 we recognize the gathering of the remnant.  This happens at the return of His Son on the last day at the sounding of the 7th trumpet.

31:10 - Hear the word of Yahweh .... Say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and will guard them as a shepherd guards his flock.

Yahshua refers to us as his flock which includes another flock he will gather at his return.  The flock is from the House of Israel, descendants of Jacob who remained faithful to the one living God and the other flock is all who turned from their old pagan ways to our God Yahweh, accepted Him and live accordingly.  

Here are the links to other studies I shared in this blog relative to this study:






Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Models for Sale

The Vigilant Citizen
Published February 21, 2022

Jean-Luc Brunel – said to be Jeffrey Epstein’s “pimp” – was found dead hanging in his jail cell. Several people close to the case do not believe that it was a suicide. Did Brunel know too much?

??

Jean-Luc Brunel, the notorious fashion agent who was suspected of procuring over 1,000 girls to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell on February 19th, 2022. The apparent cause of death: Suicide by hanging. Aug. 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by hanging in his jail cell. In both cases, no camera footage was available.
 
Brunel’s death occurred only days after Prince Andrew settled his lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre who accused him of sexual abuse while she was a minor. According to the Telegraph, Queen Elizabeth herself will provide money to pay for the settlement – an estimated $20 million. 
 
Is the occult elite actively silencing anyone who could blow the lid on a massive scandal involving some of the world’s most powerful people?
 
A year after Epstein’s death, Steve Bing – a billionaire Hollywood director who was close friends with Epstein – died mysteriously by falling from the 27th floor of his apartment building. While the official cause of death was said to be “suicide”, some claim that he was killed because he knew too much.
In Aug. 2022, Steven Hoffenberg was the latest of several Epstein associates found dead. French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, Mark Middleton former special advisor to Bill Clinton with ties to Epstein, was found dead in May. Middleton's death also was ruled a suicide. He was found hanged from a tree with a shotgun wound in his chest.
One key person remains in this sordid affair: Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein’s long-time partner acted as a “Madame” throughout the years by facilitating the abuse of young girls. She is currently in jail and her family is convinced that Brunel was “suicided”. They also believe she might be next.
 
Brunel was a prominent model scout who was credited for discovering Sharon Stone and Monica Bellucci. In 2004, he founded MC2, a model management company that was financed by Jeffrey Epstein. Through this company, hundreds of girls were recruited by Brunel to be trafficked and abused by Epstein and his circle of elite friends. According to witnesses, Brunel used his reputation in the fashion industry to lure “poor girls” into a global ring of underage slaves.


In a 2015 affidavit, accuser Virginia Giuffre stated:

A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money. Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim.
In court documents that were filed in both the United States and France, Guiffre said she had “sexual relations with Brunel on several occasions” when she was aged 16-19. She added that both Brunel and Prince Andrew abused her in Little Saint James – Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

Brunel’s history of abusing models was known for decades.

“Brunel was the subject of a seven-month investigation by CBS producer Craig Pyes and reporter Diane Sawyer for 60 Minutes. The investigative segment “American Models in Paris”, which aired on 23 October 1988, covered the conduct of Brunel and fellow Parisian modeling agent Claude Haddad. Several American models who worked with Brunel were interviewed by 60 Minutes and described their experiences of the culture Brunel fostered where the models were routinely drugged and sexually abused.”

Despite these accusations, Brunel remained free and kept on running his agency while traveling abroad for scouting assignments.

During that time, Brunel became close friends with Jeffrey Epstein, who shared his obsession with abusing girls. Court documents state that Brunel once sent three 12-year-old girls from Paris to America so they could be abused by Epstein as ‘a birthday present’.

Court documents also show that the modeling agency MC2 was a front for a global underage sex ring organized by Jeffrey Epstein.

On December 16, 2020, Brunel was intercepted by police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, as he was about to board a one-way flight to Dakar, Senegal. He was then placed under ‘garde à vue’ custody for questioning in relation to rape, sexual assault, criminal conspiracy, and human trafficking, with all of the allegations involving minors.  Since then, Brunel had been incarcerated at La Santé – the notorious maximum-security prison in Paris. On February 19th 2022, Brunel was found dead in bizarre circumstances.
He was found hanging by his bed sheets in his prison cell. French prison authorities told local media that “no breach” in security at the prison had occurred, and an investigation into the cause of death had been launched. 
A few years prior, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead hanging in his jail cell using bed sheets. Due to “technical errors” CCTV footage of his prison cell was said to be lost.
 
Most prison cells in France are not monitored (for privacy), there is also no footage of Brunel’s suicide. This led some observers to believe that Brunel might have been murdered by the same forces that killed Epstein.  A source told the Daily Mail that there was no indication that Brunel had suicidal tendencies.
"There were no obvious fears for the prisoner’s health, and he was not on a suicide watch, having already been in prison for many months."
In the wake of Brunel’s death, Ghislaine Maxwell’s family also stated that the “suicide” was highly suspicious.
 
Ian Maxwell added that (his sister) Ghislaine was put into a room at the prison with a psychiatrist and two others, including a guard with everything recorded on camera. Nevertheless, he fears for her safety.  “Despite the psychiatrist advising to the contrary, she was deemed a suicide risk and they are continuing to wake her up every 15 minutes in the night”.  Ian Maxwell insisted that Ghislaine is not suicidal. He also found it “ironic” that Epstein and Brunel, who died of apparent suicides, were not on suicide watches in their respective prisons. Epstein had been taken off suicide watch shortly before his death in August 2019.

In Conclusion

The death of Jean-Luc Brunel mirrors the death of Jeffrey Epstein. He is the latest casualty in an apparent ongoing operation to silence anyone who might expose the occult elite’s sick tendencies. Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs revealed that a great number of prominent celebrities, businessmen, politicians, and elite people were involved in a sex ring of underage slaves that operated across the world – most notably on Epstein’s own private island. 
 
Jean-Luc Brunel was accused of recruiting girls for this elite ring. Epstein reportedly boasted that he personally slept with over 1,000 girls that were “shipped” to him by Brunel. 
 
In other words, Brunel knew everything about this sordid affair. And there was a risk that he could spill the beans on several elite psychopaths. And now he’s dead. Ghislaine Maxwell might be next. 
 
End Quote
 
But wait! There's more!
 
John Casablancas met Donald Trump in the 70s. Donald had his modeling agency 'T Models' which he later changed to 'Trump Model Management' and it ran for 18 years, closed in 2017. He was also friends with Mr. Epstein and that is how he met Melania. Donald Trump was quoted as saying he got to know financier Jeffrey Epstein in the late 1980s. “He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump famously told New York magazine in 2002. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
 
 
 
"Sometime in 1995 when Ivanka Trump was 14 years old, her father signed her up with a modeling gig at his friend John Casablancas' agency, Elite. The president of the company, Monical Pillard, first set his sights on signing Ivanka when she was 11 or 12."
Trump became friends with Casablancas sometime in the 1970s after being introduced by Roy Cohn*. Casablancas personally managed Ivanka’s modeling career.

Ivanka, 9 years old, with her dad


 

 
Trump owned his modeling agency for 18 years which closed in 2017, not without controversy.  He also encouraged aspiring fashionistas while presiding over the Miss Universe Organization. 
“I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant,” Trump told Howard Stern in 2005.  "Therefore I’m inspecting it… ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”

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More thoughts to ponder:

Who is Judge Acosta who convicted Epstein of child rape in 2017 but was only sentenced to 13 months in prison due to his friendship with Trump, and Acosta became Trump’s minister of labor, but was forced to resign when Epstein’s case reopened? What did Epstein and Maxwell have to do with Donald and Melania Trump, whose work has led to suicide and arrest?

In New York, Maxwell partnered with sex and drug dealer Epstein to offer a modeling job with the intention of earning astronomical income by giving beautiful young virgins to the rich.

She attended Marlborough College, one of Britain’s most expensive private colleges, and through her father connected with members of Buckingham Palace, had easy access to Britain’s dirtiest rich, including “Prince Andrew”.

Epstein and Maxwell needed to select celebrities in New York and London to start their own sex agency. He convinced Trump, who worked hard to escape financial bankruptcy in 1991 and needed to meet famous people.

Maxwell also considered Prince Andrew, who had good relations with influential people in London and the wealthy princes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Epstein was introduced to Prince Andrew by Maxwell to host the London Sex Club, and he worked for many years at London and New York Sex Clubs, and Andrew was a regular client of virgin girls.

The American team “Trump-Epstein” and the British team “Andrew-Maxwell” needed to work with a global brand to start an international career to host the sex of the rich.

Trump, a regular at Casablanca nightclubs at his New York mansions, hired John Casablanca, director of the Italian company Elite Model Management, to work with him, and in 1991 signed a business deal with him as an investor and referee for the Elite Model beauty pageant.

With this agreement, the modeling industry and the sex industry of Europe and the United States merged, making it possible for politicians and the rich to have easy and hassle-free sex with teenage and virgin girls at the Trump and Epstein parties, which was welcomed. Even former US President Bill Clinton and Arab princes attended the parties.

Trump and Epstein held the Young Model Girls Contest at the Plaza Hotel in 1993 and in Maralogo in 1993 to advance their work. In these competitions, the top models who were willing to cooperate with the “Elite Model” were selected.

The competition was an important achievement and showed that girls from Eastern Europe and Latin America, and especially Brazil, are more willing to work in the sex industry. Since then, Elite has focused its modeling work on teenage girls identified through fashion brands and fashion magazines in Eastern European countries.

For easier access to Eastern European girls, “Elite Model” selected young supermodels who, while familiar with the Russian language and culture, were more attractive to girls from Eastern European countries, and then could more easily communicate and educate girls, especially from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were transferred to the United States and London.

“Melania” was noticed in these searches among the beautiful girls of Eastern Europe. An unknown figure, she was introduced to Casablanca and Epstein through a man named Paolo Zampolli. From now on, in order for Melania to become international, it was necessary for her to become famous worldwide in collaboration with world-famous brands in France and Italy.
Zampolii started the ID Models agency in the 1990s to attract European girls and coordinated Melania’s work in Italy with “Joseph Mifsud”, who had close ties to Trump and Epstein.

In 1992, with the support of Zampolii and Mifsud, “Jana Magazine” published photos of Melania with 12 beautiful young girls, which eventually selected Melania as the top three models of the year. The yellow press immediately published reports and photos of Melania’s personality and achievements.

After gaining fame in Italy and France in 1995, Melania arrived in New York on an H-1B visa and lived with a sports photographer named “Matthew Atanian” and later with Epstein in an apartment where he worked as a photographer.

The apartment was actually owned by Elite Model and photographed teenage girls exported from Europe to evaluate modeling. It was in this apartment that Jeffrey Epstein was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl after forcing her to undress.

Melania’s main problem during her first years in the United States, however; was the heavy cost of living in New York. From 1995 to 1997, she paid for her expensive living in New York by printing nude photos, especially on Trump’s private jet and escorting some Epstein clients, until some important events occurred in 1999.

Trump, who chose Melania as one of his sexy dolls, divorced his second wife and started T-Models in hopes of expanding the empire of the fashion world. Under Trump and Epstein, the company entered the sex trade and illegally traded virgin girls and minors to the rich.

Melania, who after a few years of sexual slavery had lost her appeal to long-awaited clients, was hired for a second phase of work hosted by young newcomers and forced to maintain her body and set an example for new models. Perform two cosmetic operations on the chest and face during the years 98 and 99.

At T-Models, Melania and Maxwell managed to train girls to photograph and then sleep with the rich, and for models who were reluctant to continue, they persuaded them and even their parents to settle for a lucrative short-term job with a residence and work permit in the United States by showing their own bank accounts and photos of their parties and how they progressed in the fashion market.

In order for the newcomers to start their careers without any embarrassment, Melania and Maxwell forced them to watch a free relationship with rented men to learn how to behave in a variety of sexual ways with guests.
Seeing these scenes, they had to learn the courage and skills to have sex with men of all tastes and ages. In some cases, Melania and Maxwell were even the sex model for rented men.

Accordingly, a U.S. court has charged Maxwell with sexual harassment of underage girls after her arrest, which carries a life sentence under the law.
Although Trump promised to shut down T-Models after his inauguration in January 2016, the agency continued to work until 2017 to remove model girls who were staying in the United States illegally.

To cover up the role of Trump and Melania in the sex club, Epstein has (apparently) committed suicide, Joseph Mifsud disappeared, Prince Andrew has been summoned by the US Attorney, Maxwell has been arrested, the family of US Federal Judge Esther Salas judge have been assassinated, 10 complaints against Trump Silent, Trump’s lawyers have either threatened exponents of Melania’s sexual slavery or collected her nude photos at great expense.

*Roy Cohen 

Cohen started representing the Trumps in 1973 after the Department of Justice sued them for racist rental practices at the thousands of apartments they owned, through the rest of the ’70s and into the ’80s. Cohn became for Trump something much more than simply his attorney. At a most formative moment for Trump, there was no more formative figure than Cohn. Trump loved the guy because he was 'ruthless'.
 
They were both ruthless....

"Trump boasted that he kept a photo of Roy in his office, to intimidate people. “Roy is a terrible lawyer,” he told the laughing crowd. “But I only need to mention his name and people are too scared to challenge me.”



 


Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Another 'holiday' with Pagan Roots

 Quote:

In America, it’s believed that the first Thanksgiving took place in 1621, but this was not the first time people gathered to give thanks for the Autumn harvest.  In fact, people have been celebrating the harvest for millennia and our Thanksgiving meal is just a modern incarnation reflecting these ancient celebrations of autumn abundance.

Harvest celebrations were also important during Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Pagan times. In Britain these traditions evolved into a holiday called Harvest Home. Historically, the date of Harvest Home differed each year as it was celebrated when all of the autumn crops were finally harvested. The final cartload of food was paraded through the town and a big Harvest Supper was celebrated among the villagers.

In addition to Harvest Home, a separate religious holiday called the "days of thanksgivings" was practiced in the Church of England, in which people set aside one religious day of their choosing to "give thanks to God." We get the name “Thanksgiving” from this Christian tradition, while the feasting commonly associated with Thanksgiving largely derives from the Harvest Home celebrations.

Luckily for us Americans, our harvest Thanksgiving celebrations were never commandeered by the church and as such they remain pretty Pagan to this day.

Here in America, a lot of our imagery around Thanksgiving shows a shared meal between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. It could be said that this rosy view of our first Thanksgiving meal together is largely misleading and helps to obscure the many atrocities the colonists committed upon the Native Americans. The Native Americans, like the ancient Pagan peoples of Europe, understood the importance of honoring and respecting the harvest. And during the first American Thanksgiving that took place in 1621, the Native Americans paused to give thanks to many spirits and deities that aided in the bountiful harvest.

Symbols

There are three key symbols that are common to Thanksgiving celebrations: the cornucopia (aka the horn of plenty), the turkey, and corn. All these symbols were viewed as very important among Pagan societies. 

Let’s begin with the Cornucopia, an important symbol in ancient Greece and Rome. This symbol goes back to a story from Ancient Greece where a goat pulled off his horn and offered it to the God Zeus. This was a magic horn that would refill indefinitely with food and drink ensuring that Zeus would never go hungry.  

The Cornucopia was also incorporated in statues and money across ancient Rome and was often used in representations of the goddess of grain Ceres and the goddess of luck Fortuna.

The Turkey, the centerpiece of the American Thanksgiving dinner. Many Native American tribes view Turkey as a symbol of fertility and abundance. As a totem animal, Turkey reminds us of the importance of our relationship with the land as the land is the source of our nourishment and sustenance. Turkey feathers are also viewed as especially important and are used in ritual wear and in smudging ceremonies. So when we eat Turkey at Thanksgiving we are celebrating & honoring the connection we have with our sacred land and the animal spirits.

Corn is often used as a symbol to represent Thanksgiving. Corn, also called maize, was a key staple crop among the Native Americans and it played an important role in their spiritual beliefs.  In some tribes Corn itself was seen as a spirit and often it played a role in ceremonies. 


Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Spiritual and Physical


The question I was asked: 
Did God create the angels after His own image?
 
My first answer, without further study of Scriptures, would be 'no', because He specified 'man' would be made in 'Our image, Our likeness'.  "Our" would include the existing angels along with Yahweh, as they are similar beings, of the same Spiritual substance. 

Genesis 1:26 = Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness
Verse 27 = And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created them.
 
It seems the angelic realm has existed with God prior to the earth age yet we do not know if they were created or were naturally part of His Spiritual Realm.  What we know for certain is both Yahweh and His Host exist in the Spiritual realm and us mere humans do not have a full understanding of what this means.  Our day will come.

Hebrews 1:14
Are not the angels ministering spirits 
sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

 
Here is a distinction I've never paid attention to before.  Read Genesis 5.
This is the record of Adam's line.  When God created man He made him in the likeness of God, male and female He created them.  And when they were created He blessed them and called them Man.   When Adam had lived 130 years he begot a son in his likeness after his image, and he named him Seth.

Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of Yahweh and His heavenly host.  When physical man began to procreate they were in his human image.  

This might be why we need to be born again.... 

•John 3 ~ I tell you that unless a person is born again from above he cannot see the Kingdom of God... unless a person is born from water and the Spirit  he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

We have been born from water = a physical birth.  Now we must experience that Spiritual birth and it doesn't come from being baptized.  It comes from reading and studying and being in fellowship with other set apart believers as we seek Yahweh and gain understanding via His Spirit.

John 4:23 ~ But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, indeed. Yahweh seeks worshippers as these. For Yahweh is Spirit, and those who worship must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
 
John 14:16 ~  And I will ask of my Father and He will give you another Redeemer who will be with your forever. The Spirit of Truth, he who the world is not able to receive because it has not seen Him nor knows Him. But you know Him for He dwells with you and He is in you.
 
John 15:26 ~ But when the Redeemer comes, he whom I will send to you from the presence of my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who proceeds from the presence of my Father will witness concerning me.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Did Noah have Seven Laws?

No, Noah did not have a separate set of Laws.  

That idea appears only in the Talmud

and not in Yah's Instructions 

which were given to all mankind. 

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Some folks think that Noah had a separate set of 'Laws from God' and refer to them as the Noahide Laws of which they claim there are seven of them.

That idea appears only in the Talmud and not in Yah's Instructions which were given to all mankind. The Talmud was composed many years later.
Basically, these are the seven 'laws' which Judaism applies to Noah:
•Do not profane God’s Oneness in any way.
Do not curse your Creator.
•Do not murder.
•Do not eat a limb of a still-living animal.
•Do not steal.
•Harness and channel the human
•Establish courts of law and ensure justice in our world.
How many of those can you relate to the original 613 'laws' from Yahweh? Or even the Ten Commandments most of us are familiar with? 
 
Religious leaders sure seem to think they are more important than any of us when they 'take from' and 'add to' the Word of God.
 
The Noahide Laws are a product of man's imagination, Jewish tradition and religious power trips.
Quote: The seven Noahide Laws are not explicitly listed in the Bible. Instead, they are derived according to the Talmud‘s interpretation of Genesis 2:16 given to Adam, and Genesis 9:4-6 given to Noah. The Talmud is a “Jewish literary collection of teachings, laws, and interpretations based on the Old Testament Torah. It has two parts, the Mishnah and that Gemara.

Yahweh was never about religion
 
One God, One Faith, One People who abide by Yahweh's Owner's Manual = Scriptures, especially Genesis through Deuteronomy where we learn His Instructions for all mankind. Once we learn His Instructions, the rest of Scriptures seems to show us how to apply them to our lives accordingly.
 
I do not encourage the use of the talmud nor do I support folks who use it as a teaching guide. 
 
Rabbis believe
 "Without an oral tradition some of the Torah's laws would be incomprehensible"
and this is simply not true. 
As we continue to read and study Yah's Instructions, it is His Spirit that reveals the truth and teaches us how to apply His Word to our lives in today's world. The talmud provides insight to the 'Jewish mindset' (not the Hebrew mindset) via the early rabbinic system (the beginnings of Judaism = a religion). It is a collection of writings that covers 'Jewish law and tradition', setting Yahweh aside.
 
Rabbis believe we cannot understand "Torah" without 'oral tradition' and that is simply not true. They were guilty of putting a 'fence around Torah' back in day and many religious leaders have followed suit. My main point is to advise caution when it comes to the traditions of man. When we continue to read and study Scriptures daily, His Spirit will reveal the Truth wherein we gain knowledge and understanding, without the influence of traditions or man's opinions about "God". 
 
Y'shua called the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because they transgressed against the Commandments of EL by way of their traditions which later became recorded in the Talmud. This is a big reason why I do not recommend using the Talmud in an attempt to teach, shed light or verify the Word of Yahweh.